Inland Residential Properties names new board member

OAK BROOK - Inland Residential Properties Trust has appointed Meredith W. Mendes as a member of the board of directors to fill the vacancy created by the passing of Donald E. Tolva on Oct. 9.

Mendes, an executive director and chief operating officer of Jenner & Block LLP, was unanimously appointed by the board as an independent director. She was also appointed as a member of the nominating and corporate governance committee and a member of the audit committee.

Mendes has served as executive director and chief operating officer of Jenner & Block LLP, a law firm with approximately 550 attorneys and offices in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C., since 2005. In her position, she is responsible for firm-wide operations relating to finance, facilities and real estate, technology, human resources and other support functions.

Prior to joining Jenner & Block in 2005, Mendes served as executive vice president and worldwide chief financial officer of Daniel J. Edelman, Inc., held chief financial officer positions at the Hartford Computer Group, Inc. and Medline Industries, Inc., served as vice president in public finance at First Chicago Capital Markets, and started her career in 1983 as a practicing attorney in corporate and public finance. She is a Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University, and earned a master of business administration with a finance concentration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a juris doctor's degree from Harvard Law School. She attended the Kellogg School of Management Women's Director Development Program.

Mendes is also a certified public accountant (CPA), member of the University of Chicago Women's Board and is a trustee, chair of the compensation committee and a member of the audit committee of The Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.